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What is this "mania for prohibition" that invades both public and private spaces? What does the proliferation of prohibitions imply in our everyday lives, and what consequences does it have on our social...

The most prosperous company in Mexico is not in the top 10 Aztec companies and is not even listed in the legal commercial register. It is a consortium of drug cartels that floods the world market with...

Albert Camus is prone to many misunderstandings. Jean-François Mattéi seeks to dispel them by offering us an innovative reading of this philosopher's work. He shows us that it is by tackling the three...

A feast of the body and, above all, a feast of words, Sade's work continues to reach out to us through the fusions it creates. Philosophy? Pornography? Farce? Like Madame de Saint-Ange in her boudoir,...

On July 26, 2023, David Charles Grusch—an ex-intelligence officer—declared under oath, before members of the House of Representatives, that the US government had long possessed several crashed spaceships...

What is an emotion? What social role does it play? How can it be understood and expressed? Is there such a thing as emotional intelligence? These are the fundamental questions to which Maurice Moulay...

Freud's name is inseparable from his discovery of the unconscious and the consequences he drew from it: psychoanalysis.  This book takes up the issues raised by Freud with force and clarity, and sheds...

Through his writings, Michel Foucault proclaims not only that God is dead, but that man is also dying. He examines objects deemed unworthy that have never been taken into account by philosophy. This...

It's high time we realized that there is hardly a thinker who has more perceptively sketched the outlines of a future that is our present. Contrary to what is repeated by those who would like to refute...

Emancipation is the real thread running through Marx's thought. He's not concerned with capitalism, or Marxism for that matter, but with capital: it's this fundamental notion that we need to return to...

What if... a rogue planet grazed the Earth? the Earth left its orbit? the Earth stopped rotating? a meteorite crashed into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? the Sun suddenly went out? a supervolcano erupted...

Duchamp is still too often synonymous with hermeticism. We invite you to discover the successive stages of his unique trajectory, and to explore some of its many facets, beyond the ready-made or his famous...

Reputedly difficult, the thought of Plotinus (205-270) is the culmination of ancient philosophy. Inspired first and foremost by Platonism, but also by Aristotelianism and Stoicism, it requires the ability...

“I have the feeling that I live differently from others. From the image of being different that they reflect back to me. A feeling that builds up over time… with force… I imagine this other person living...

"Dear Mr. Müller, A friend of my sister's advised me to write to you, saying that you could help me return to France. My father took my sister and me to Algeria and left us there against our will. He...

Money laundering accounts for 3% of global GDP ($3,000 billion). If it were a country, it would be the world's 8th largest, equivalent to the UK's GDP. The aim of this essay is to describe the mechanisms...

"I'm here to put the internationals in order. I'm in charge here. Too many people showed up at the center and they had no business being there.” These are the words of an American instructor, met by Régis...

"I’ve heard it said that for alcoholics like me, there are only four possibilities: prison, the psychiatric ward, death or sobriety. I didn't go to jail, but did end up at the police station, in a drunk...

How can we use information rather than be subjected to it? Does life have a digital logic? Is the internal structure of the universe made up of information? Is the Internet generating a collective brain?...

Should we be afraid of UFOs? In June 2021, NASA's boss admitted that "I’ve talked to those pilots, and they know they saw something, and their radars locked onto it, and then all of a sudden it was here,...

Is it a contradiction, a lie, a madness, a freedom to affirm a theory and live the opposite? Rousseau writes a treatise on education thanks to the abandonment of his five children, Kierkegaard composes...

Human beings have always questioned their identity in an attempt to understand themselves better and to develop. With the development of our societies and especially the new technological revolutions,...

In this biography, events guru William Perkins recounts the high points of his life and reveals his little secrets.For this new art of the grandiose and the ephemeral, the means deployed are immense and...

For some, Péguy is “an anarchist who put holy water in his oil”; for others, a dangerous rebel whose “head is full of revolution”. A socialist and a Catholic, a pious poet and a raging polemicist, Péguy...

“Wagner sums up modernity. No matter what you do, you have to start by being a Wagnerian.” Nietzsche Glorified in France and Germany in the 19th century, Wagner's image was distorted: the revolutionary...

The Constitutional Council is the embodiment of wisdom and is responsible for defending the rule of law and the individual freedoms of the French people, by censuring a law if it considers it unconstitutional....

At once strange and familiar, bearer of a narrative and initiator of a relationship, the theatrical object has a status in its own right within the performance, and constantly encourages the actor to...

Préfaces de Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud et Marguerite Bouniol Le 23 décembre 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier est retrouvée assassinée dans sa propriété de Toormore, en Irlande. 17 ans après, malgré de...

Quelques siècles après le grand zéro, les humanimaux dominent le monde.Devenue humaine de compagnie, Murphy découvre la cité de Valyrium où sa maîtresse, l'huma-louve Diamantine, réside. Mais elle veut...

“It's better to talk to you than to my parents; I wouldn't want to hurt their feelings. “Anguish, when it takes hold of me, is a terrible abyss! “I don't know who I am anymore. It's like voices are talking...